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his country, by doing honour to its character and extending its trade, as well as millions of his fellow-creatures, in being the means of giving them peace, liberty, and, we hope, religion.

The novelty of Mr. Brooke's undertaking and its elevated objects, have so engaged us, as to leave us no room to notice that smaller portion of the work which is devoted to the voyage of the Dido. Captain Keppel has been obviously anxious to give prominence to such parts of his narrative as relate directly to Mr. Brooke, as well as to

the extracts from his journal; and yet there are other topics in his volumes of exceeding interest. We, however, contemplate resuming the consideration of them in a future paper on the subject of the Eastern Archipelago. In parting, for the present, from Captain Keppel, we are bound to thank him for the high gratification which his work has afforded us. It combines, with a mass of solid information, so many of the elements of pleasing, that we hold it no venture to predict its immediate and permanent popularity.

HERR NEWMAN'S PILGRIMAGE.

What Lord Shrewsbury got for his money, and how he and it were soon parted.

Of the prices of some commodities not mentioned in M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, or Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations; and of the Pope of Rome, and how he wanted to raise the wind.

Of Lord Shrewsbury's swearing

like a trooper, and

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Prices rise and prices fall;
Want it is that measures all.
Masses, that in Portugal

Now command a price but small,

Are at Dingle down to nothing to all.

"Let masses be said abroad and at home,

For whatever they bring," said the Pope of Rome;
"I'm as poor as a rat," said the Pope of Rome.

And masses were said,

And prayers were prayed

Clouds of sound from organs rose,
Tongues of nuns had no repose,

And still in hope Lord Shrewsbury paid;
But at last he swore,

"I'll pay no more,

Das Neumannpilgerfahrtlied "De Perigrinatione Novi Hominis Cantilena Nova." Von Wilhelm Carl Grimm. Heidelberj. Bey Mohr and Zimmer. 1945.

of the way in which the Pope of Rome thinks young Oxford ought to be tamed and treated.

Of Herr Neumann's long walk, and what he took with him.

Whatever they sing or whatever they say;
Not a fish have we caught for this many a day,
Save Ward and the curate of Ilfracombe."
"Ward and the curate of Ilfracombe

Are two nice lads, said the Pope of Rome.
Cubs like these the Church can lick
To shape with the whip of St. Dominic."
Said the Pope, the Infallible Pope of Rome,

Ward and the curate of Ilfracombe
Kiss the toe of the Pope of Rome.
Newman, saintly, sad, and sage,
Takes the staff of pilgrimage.

A tooth of St. Denis is in his scrip

A silver tooth, with a socket of gold,
And a hair from the mole on St. Katherine's lip,
Which blotted her face like an iron mould.

The poet findeth a proper rhyme for Keble, which is likely to be remembered as long as Keble's name. Of Master Ward, and of Dutchmen, and peacocks, and the eyes with which they do not see, and how the Pope in his infallibility pronounced a judgment on Ward and the curate of Ilfracombe, showing that they are happy on earth and why; and how the Pope erreth not in Fact.

'Twere long to tell where he hath been-
'Twere strange to see what he hath seen:
The lover and the lunatic,

Strong in faith, in reason feeble,
And the poet, fancy-sick,

(Williams say, or one like Keble,)
Create the world they see, and thus
To Dutchmen heaven is nebulous ;

And 'tis my faith that Ward, and such men,
See, after all, much less than Dutchmen ;
Eyes have they of as much avail

To see with, as those in a peacock's tail;
Round, and round, in sunlight playing,
-Creatures, innocent and gay,—
Instincts of their kind obeying,
Round and round and round, they go,
In the sunshine, wheeling slow.
Happy, happy beings they!

Made, 'twould seem, of soulless clay;

Like the fish of the sea or the river streams,

Or the lizard that basks in the sunny beams,

Or the squirrel leaping in restless glee,

Or in merry mood the Chimpanzee.

Or the birds with slit tongues, that discourse on theology,
Of which travellers tell us-see Children's Zoology—
With plumage and head-knots of cardinal feather-
And the strangest thing is that they all talk together.
Oh, happy are they, for they have no need

Of the past or the future to think or take heed;
"Happy the curate of Ilfracombe,

And happy is Ward !" said the Pope of Rome.
"Such creatures are happier far than the human."
"Am I then a parrot? or monkey? no true man?
Is this what the Pope thinks ?"quoth Ward.
Newman,

"Of thee and the curate of Ilfracombe

So thinks the Infallible Pope of Rome.

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"Yes," said

The truth thus pronounced on, all earth should receive,
Without shadow of doubt, and, for one, I believe!"

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How the Old Man walketh as becometh a New Man, and maketh his way into foreign parts, and quoteth Tertullian, whom he thinks a poet as good as Master Faber, a young gentleman who writeth verse, not easily read of all men, or indeed of any man, such is its length and depth.

He honoreth with
the worship called
Hagiolatry, 11,000
virgins and odd.
Herr Neumann
maketh belief to
believe.

He visits three
heads of St. Corne-
lius. St. Cornellys
(see Legenda
Aurea) succeeded
Fabian in the Pa-
pacy, and was be-
headed.

Sees St. Cornellys,
as it were.

A myth that await-
eth the time of a
future develop-
ment, when it will
come to have mean-
ing.

A calumnious re-
proach.

Answer to this ca-
lumny.

An ecclesiastical
miracle.

Forth upon his pilgrimage

Moves the man of middle age-
Ever as he went he told

One by one his beads of gold;
Angel voices meet his ear,

Waking thoughts of happy cheer—
Visions of an elder day,

And old rhymes made short his way.
And thus he said, or seemed to say,
"How happily Tertullian,

How sweetly, too, St. Cyprian-
Like our dear young Faber, paints
The lilies of the Church-her saints!-
'Oh happy days'-thus runs their praise-
When children seven each virgin had—
The first a boy in white was clad,
Modesty, a fair-haired boy;

And the second's name was Joy;
Patience, next with sober glance,
Meekness, Prudence, Temperance;
And last and loveliest of the seven,
Chastity, with heart in heaven.'"*

In such scales of silver weighing,
By such test their gold assaying,
And a sigh of pity heaving
For poor England unbelieving,
Virgin thousands, ten and one,
He hath honoured at Cologne.

Heads of St. Cornelius three,
(Twenty-four in all there be,)
Now he makes belief to see.

One had eyes, whence lightnings broke,
One the Flemish language spoke,
One a Turkish pipe did smoke.

With a jewelled turban one
Like a sheik of Babylon
Was apparelled: one had on
An Oxford cap-and one a crown.

As our pilgrim bowed his head,
Enemies in whispers said,
That in adoration dread
He was worshipping the Dead.

Dead men's heads these never were:
One is huckaback and hair_

One is parchment puffed with air—
One is China's earthenware.

One of them with white lips mute
Moved his eyes in stern salute;
Like a statue frozen-eyed,
One with hollow words replied.

• Tertullian de Virginitate.

"O Tod! ich kenn's And the third grave head did shake ;

das ist mein Famulus."

Treateth of a far off place from which devils come, and whither attorneys are thought by some to go.

Mechanical sympathy.

How Herr Neumann elimbed up high, and for what purpose, and how he fell down.

Conjectures on the relation of cause and effect, with an example alike physical and moralOf probability and

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Was the scaffolding broken on which he relied?

Has his fall, after all, but been caused by his pride?
I know not-I guess not-I tell but the fact,

That NEWMAN HAS FALLEN, AND IS PROBABLY CRACKED.

poet forbears to describe all 1err Neumann's wandering fancies, and concludeth with a plain matter of fact to be determined by the Lord High Chancellor of England.

STONEYBURST,
April First.

1

THE INSURRECTIONS AND INSURGENTS OF ITALY.

III. AUSTRIA AND THE RESTORATION,

From 1814 to 1820 revolution and counter-revolution were simultaneously developing themselves. Although counter-revolution did not exactly fall within the designs of the Holy Alliance, the restoration of Austrian power in Italy was not, on that account, a less violent re-action against liberal sentiments. The first care of the Emperor Francis was, gradually to efface the memorials of France, and of the kingdom of Italy: Naples was occupied by the Austrian troops; the Romagna and Piedmont were placed under the surveillance of the court of Vienna. England withdrew her forces and ceased to exercise any influence. Thus all the Italian states fell under the jealous protectorate of the Austrian power. Scarcely had the king Victor-Emmanuel re-entered Piedmont, when he proclaimed, by his very first edict, that the Sicilian states were to be placed in the situation which they occupied in 1770. The almanach royal was patronized by the court; the public functionaries of 1796 were re-instated in their posts; and the places of those who had died were supplied by zealous royalists. Genoa was deprived of her liberties. In Tuscany the schools of art and the charitable pawn-offices were closed, and the old régime, together with the antiquated laws of Leopold was com pletely re-established. The party of Murat, Carbonarism, and Austrian occupation, gave to the re-action at Naples a character more strange than elsewhere. The Holy Alliance had imposed on Ferdinand a promise to respect the Buonapartists; and Ferdinand was forced to alter gradually the tendency of all the French laws, whilst he strove to weaken the influence of the Buonapartists, whom he was forced to retain in their situations. England had established, by the most vigorous measures, the constitution in Sicily: in 1816 it was suppressed, and its suppression entailed the loss of the guarantees of the ancient parliament of Sicily. Ferdi

nand had hitherto encouraged the Carbonari; but Prince Canosa, who, in 1816, was set over the police of Naples, opposed to the Carbonari a sect of ultra-royalists, called the Calderari: collisions of the two parties continually took place, and massacres seemed inevitable. Happily, the courts of Vienna and St. Petersburgh demanded that Canosa should be given up; thus the threatened danger was avoided, and peace was farther guaranteed by the presence of Austrian troops. By the concordat of 1819, the court of Naples restored to the Church its power of censure, its dues, and all the sacerdotal privileges previously abrogated in the kingdom by the labours of a century. Everywhere the ultra-Catholic party crushed the liberties of the Italian states. The pontifical government returned to its retrograde tendencies. Pius IV. suppressed the French code, and revived the 84,000 laws which were in force before the revolution; the ancient ecclesiastical tribunals replaced the courts of appeal, and cardinals took the place of prefets; the monopolies of the prelates, the inquisition-all was restored to what it had been before, with the sole exception of the torture. The brigands made their appearance again in the kingdom of Naples and in the Romagna, in the train of the legitimate governments; the king of Naples had even to enter into a regular treaty with the troop led by Verdarelli (1817); in 1819 the pontiff ordered the city of Sonnino to be destroyed, and, notwithstanding, the brigands continued to defy all the efforts of the pontifical troops.

The extravagances of absolutism were not long in rekindling the spirit of revolution. The violent

conduct of the Church had created a fresh tendency to the doctrines of Voltaire, and the excesses of the aristocracy had revived in the middle classes their hatred of the nobility. The revolutionists, after having protested against the yoke of Napoleon, found themselves the slaves of the house of Austria; after having sought for free institutions, they had still to wait for

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